I wouldn't build for under about $800, honestly. Keyword build. What I would do, instead, is get an old Sandy/Ivy era corporate box for $300 or so and upgrade the GPU. In the old days, building on the cheap made a lot of sense because the CPU arms race rendered anything obsolete after 18 months or ...

You mean the same AMD that was roundly criticized on this forum and elsewhere for the fact they disingenuously downplayed their vulnerability to Spectre? No, it's more than just that. Everyone downplays exploits. https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-security-research-findings/ In that ...

Does this mean what I think it means? I could be playing on my PC against someone on their phone? Yeesh! How do they overcome the input disadvantages (in a fair manner). I don't appreciate having to be pinpoint accurate on my PC while some console chump simply has to get their crosshair inside a 10...

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12536/our-interesting-call-with-cts-labs Interesting, if aggravating read. I call BS on their statement (referenced by Ian Cuttress in the article) that they don't provide details to companies that aren't the manufacturer. They provided enough detail to Viceroy for Vi...

A friend of mine was talking about how into Fartnight his sons are and how he got sucked in. That plus the free stuff Twitch Prime gave me a bunch of free stuff for it, so I downloaded it last night on my PS4. First couple of matches echoed what DPete27 said, but there's something addictive in there...

Honestly though the best policy is you have computer(s) just for surfing and it can't connect in any meaningful way (shares, casual file transfer, etc) to computers you care about. Its hard because you have to change your habits. You are the biggest security threat. For a while I worked as a contra...

Do I get extra credit for using Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu in this case)? adame@Spock:/mnt/c/Users/aeeng/Desktop$ gcc pi_with_time.c -o pi adame@Spock:/mnt/c/Users/aeeng/Desktop$ ./pi Current local time and date: Wed Mar 14 21:18:17 2018 100.0% pi ~= 3.1415926535898 Current local time and ...

@derFunkenstein - Did you remember to enable optimization when you compiled it? That seems awfully slow. I'm dumb, because today is my first experience with the compiler. In the gcc command I had -O3. I found out I also needed the same flag in the clang command. That sped it up a ton. Like I said, ...

Yeah I came up with something better than what I had originally posted. See edit. I can't write a line of C but I can Google awfully well, and I'm OK to format strings. :lol: edit: with enough Googling I could maybe one day rise to the rank of "totally incompetent C developer" but that see...

4,000,000,000 certainly takes a lot longer to run on my Mac. I'll have to figure out how to show what time it is before processing and afterwards, and then we'll have jbi's own Pi machine. pi ~= 3.1415926535898 edit 2: this one is better. Thanks to thanks to StackOverflow ( this one too ), I have it...

Lived over fifty years with ALS. That all by itself is what's most amazing to me. I mean, yes, he has all those other amazing achievements. But still, the human body is kinda fragile in a healthy state and he was diagnosed in the 60s.

Uh...not sure what you're asking. iOS runs on ARM. Now, if you mean macOS, Apple only licenses macOS to be virtualized from a macOS host, and only licenses Apple hardware to be the macOS host. There may be workarounds out there, but I don't think we can link those and definitely can't share a system...

Or maybe it's a bunch of kids (judging from their management team's photos , anyway) trying to make names for themselves. AMD says they had never heard of these guys. I think it's safe to say they have now. The domain registrations for AMDFLAWS.com and for safefirmware.com (which is where the whitep...

There's just a ton of marketing speak and that disclaimer sets off all sorts of alarm bells. The domain registrations for AMDFLAWS.com and for safefirmware.com (which is where the whitepaper is hosted) is totally obfuscated. Maybe that's common, but it seems fishy to me. screencap on the Tweeter: ht...

For those who might enjoy it: on April 1 (Easter Sunday this year), NBC is doing a live version of the show with John Legend and Alice Cooper . It's probably not going to be the quality of the original recording, but I'm still very interested. We're hosting Easter dinner this year since we have a 55...

The problem with Windows 10 S Mode isn't that it's locked to the store. It's that it can only download UWP apps from the store. There are plenty of listings for other apps that run on the older APIs but S Mode blocks all that.